Garmin GPSMAP 230 Owner's Manual

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Timers & Alarms SetupThe timer & alarms submenu is used to control various alarm/timer settings.• Timer sounds an alarm when an entered interval (up to 99:59:59) has expired, orprovides a continuous running clock timer to 99:59:59.To use the countdown timer:1. Select the ‘Count Down’ menu option.2. Enter the desired time interval in the interval field, and press T.3. Once the count down time has expired, an alarm message will appear, and the timer willautomatically switch to the count up mode.4. To reset the timer, select the reset option and press T.• Clock Alarm provides an alarm for the system clock. To use the clock alarm,select the ‘On’ option and enter the desired time of day in the time field.• Arrival Alarm lets you specify an alarm to sound when you’re a specified distanceaway from a destination waypoint. Three options are available:• Off- No arrival alarm will sound.• Auto- An arrival alarm will sound one minute before the destination, basedupon your current speed and course over ground.• On- An arrival alarm will sound at the alarm distance specified in the distancefield for the destination waypoint (the ‘On’ setting will only provide an arrivalalarm for the final destination waypoint of the active route).• Crosstrack Alarm provides an alarm for crosstrack error (XTK) when your vesselis off course by more than a specified distance, up to 99.99 (units).• Anchor Drag Alarm lets you specify an alarm to sound when you’ve exceeded aspecified drift distance, up to 9999 (units). Whenever the anchor alarm is trig-gered, an anchor icon will appear in the status bar.A. The timer field can be set to count down from aspecified interval or provide a running count ofelapsed time.B. The ‘On’ setting of the arrival alarm will causethe alarm to sound only for the final destinationwaypoint of a route at the distance specified.62A BSECTION9 SETUP MENUSTimers & Alarms